[MPlayer-users] Difficulties and quality problem with Windows Media

[Tony Houghton]

Thanks for responding so quickly.

In <200205032357.g43Nvbqa002624 at mail.mplayerhq.hu>, Arpi wrote:

[I wanted to be able to dump streams complete with headers]

> -dumpstream

[Snip]

> -ao pcm

Yes, that appears to do the trick. The man page didn't really make it
clear that these options create headers, I thought it would just be a
raw stream. And the FAQ and docs don't seem to say anything about it
either.

> > Finally, when playing what video there is from the original clip, which
> > isn't very good quality anyway, I thought it looked much, much worse in
> > mplayer than in Windows Media Player. Are some output drivers much
> try to select another stream - maybe (as usual) the stream has the same
> video at various bitrates, from very low to very high

I don't think so. My Windows box is NAT'd through my Linux one, and if I
check gkrellm I can see that both download the stream at about the same
rate. Also, there's only one mms:// URL in the .asx file. I don't know
exactly how it works, but I would expect the .asx file to be the place
where multiple streams at various bitrates are offered. If not, how can
I select a different bitrate with mplayer?

I tried playing my dumped stream (from -dumpstream) in both, but
although mplayer can now play that properly, Windows still "can't find
the specified file".

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